CLASS DAY EXERCISES IMPRESSIVE

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Pre-Season Begins On Labor Day—!

PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE STUDENTS OF ALFRED UNIVERSITY

VOL. XIV ALFRED, N. Y., TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1927 No. 30

Mantle And Ivy Orations Given; Senior Class Presents Alma Mater With Two Much-Needed Tennis Courts To Be Eeady For Use At Beginning Of Fall Term

Senior Breakfast Growing Larger And Larger Yearly Exactly three dignified Seniors who composed the graduating class of Alfred University thirty-two years ago, wended their way to ti.c home of President and Mrs 1!. C. Davis to enjoy the first Senior Breakfast ever prepared, in 1895. Now, what began as a small symbol of friendly hospitality and farewell, has grown into a festive undertaking which in- volved the entertainment of the seventy-nine members of the Class of 1927 this year.

'."he Senior Breakfast as a tradition Is intact but as a practice it lias gradually become something of a Senior Lunch, considering the time required to serve the large number attending. Who knows but what the Alfredian of future years may perhaps partake of the 72d Senior

Dinner?

Under tall trees which spread their shade over a soft floor of grass, a group of perhaps two hundred alumni, students, and faculty members gathered beside the fountain for the traditional Class Day exercises. This scene of natural grace seemed particularly fitting for those simple but beautiful customs of planting the Senior Ivy vine and handing down the Senior Mantle to the succeeding class.

The Mantle Oration was given by Helen Pound, and the robe was received by Dorothy B. Holland, who represented the Class of 192S. George- ola Whipple delivered the Ivy Oration.

Robert E. Boyce, President of the graduating class, announced that the gift to the college from the Class of 1927 would be two tennis courts lo- cated near Davis Gymnasium. While they have not yet been completed because of several combining adverse conditions, it is assured that they will be ready for use by next fall. Mr.

Boyce described the construction of the courts and said that the location for them had been decided upon because of its convenience to the showers and lockers of Davis Gym, the good foundation which provides speedy drainage, and the fact that there is space nearly sufficient for two more courts at the same level. The hope was expressed that the space may be used for this purpose in the near future. Senator Leonard W. H.

Gibbs, '98, accepted the gift in the name of the Trustees and the College, and expressed his congratulations and appreciation to the Class of 1927 for having selected such a useful and lasting memorial.

The formal speeches are as follows:

Mantle Oration

Fellow - Students, A l u m n i , and Friends:—This year marks the ninety- first Commencement of Alfred Uni- versity, the beginning of the last de- cade in the century of her history.

Each class that has gone before us has contributed a record to that history, and has helped to create that spirit which every true Alfredian feels.

It is the hope of the Class of 1927 that it has left some slight impression upon her record of achievements. In our four_years of college life we have tried to realize the higher end of work, and to keep awake the larger vision. We have striven to do well that which lay before us, and to meet responsibilities placed upon us.

We know that we have received much and given little. Here we ha -e received a preparation for our future work—not a mere preparation from books—but we have had the privilege of benefiting ourselves through contact with Alfred's ideals. We have learned to see their beauty and to appreciate them. Alfred has stimulated us to higher endeavor. She has given us friendships that will be vital in reality and memory.

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Wee Playhouse Program Pronounced Excellent

By Delighted Audience

The Wee Playhouse presented what is conceded by many to be the best trio of one-act plays ever staged by the organization. Following the plays last Monday afternoon, a degree of favorable comment was aroused which spoke well for the dis- tinct success of the presentations. Due to the contemplated renovation of Academy Hall, the plays will probably be the last presented in the little theatre o£ the Wee Playhouse.

"Steppin' Westward," a comedy by Jean- nette Marks, was coached by Chalmers Hoi- brook. A. E. Cbamplin and Elsie Binns as Griffith Griffiths and his wife Betty, and the three old women, Eva Vars, Irnia Hewitt and Eleanor Smith, were particularly good. The play was mostly "local color."

"The Valiant," by Holworthy Hall and Robert Middlemass, was a powerful and soul-stirring tragedy, and easily the most impressive play of the three. Ijee Cottroll, as the convict, did a remarkably fine piece of acting, and Dr. Binns as Father Daly, and Coach Heers as Warden Holt both dis played excellent feeling for their parts.

Helen Heers directed the play.

"Good Medicine," a comedy sKetch coached by Ray M. Holbrook and written by Jack Arnold a'nd Edwin Burke, was well-acted.

It brought a number of laughs, and was thoroughly enjoyed in spite of the fact that the atmosphere left by "The Valiant"

somewhat dampened unrestrained merriment.

President Davis Preaches Traditional Baccalaureate

Sermon To Senior Class

"So great is my faith in the truth of the proverb that 'Understanding is a well spring of life to him that hath it,' that I would not willingly see any ambitious, capable youth deprived of college training," asserted Dr. Boothe C. Davis in the annual Baccalaureate sermon in the Seventh Day Baptist church last Sunday evening. "I would go far also, he continued," in adapting the type and variety of education to all capable and willing students, whatever their special aptitudes and talents."

Dr. Davis' theme was "Learning and Living," and his text was from Proverbs 16:22—"Understanding is a well-spring of life to him that hath it." Explaining that the scriptural writer referred to a well-spring as a fountain, ever flowing, the speaker showed that knowledge is also such a fountain, because it is copious, re- freshing, pure and life-giving. "Life, he said, "seems the oldest theme in the world, and yet it is the newest, richest, and most profound, even if also the most illusive and baffling. Every life that has lived has the experience of living for itself. It cannot live by proxy."

"Since the appearance of life upon this earth each species and every rep- resentative of the species has had to meet and work out for itself, the problems of its own existence. Since the beginning of science, if not since the beginning of the race, each genera- tion has added something to the store of truth opened up to the human understanding; yet we have hardly be- gun to comprehend the inexpressible significance of the dawn of mind, the ivolution of language, the struggle for life, development of parenthood, and the struggle for the life of others."

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Two Alfred Graduates Receive Honorary Degrees From Alma Mater; Business Manager Of New York Times Also Receives Degree

Dr. Watson Demonstrates Artificial Insemination

For Biological Society

At the final meeting of the Alfred Biolo- gical Society for the current college year, members were extremely fortunate in wit- nessing a demonstration by Dr. Lloyd W at son, of artificial insemination of a queen bee. Dr. Watson has devoted years of most difficult and discouraging research with this problem, and in solving it has given a most significant truth to science. In addition to having attracted wide notice in scientific and lay circles, news of his success has already reached Germany, and he is soon to send duplicates of his apparatus to that country to be used in furthering the possibilities of the problem.

The Biological Society is thought to b<

most fortunate in having Dr. Watson a- an honorary member. Not only have his ideas been of great value, but his sincere scientific personality, freed of every vestige of self aggrandizement, has done much to stimulate interest in and desire of furthering biological research, and to support Hal- da nc in saying that "the biologist is the most romatic figure on earth at the present time."

Once more draped robes of black lend austerity to the campus green: once more aged trees bow to the many who return to their Alma Mater; once more Alfred sends forth her standard-bearers to herald to the world her far-flung cry— "Excelsior!' Alfred's ninety-first Commencement has come, and—gone. The budded plants will flower in the open world, a living tribute to her who nurtured them; they have bidden farewell to an old era; they are entering upon the new; as students they have said adieu to their college.

Honorary Degrees Awarded The awarding of three honorary I degrees was an outstanding feature

1 ' of the solemnities commemorating Al-

1 fred's ninety-first year of existence.

"Can we establish higher standards ; ,Dr- P a u I Emerson Titsworth, former- . . , , , , ,, , ly the Dean of Alfred University and of education when one-half of the pub-1 n o w P r e s i d e n t o f W a s hin g t o n College, lie school teachers today have no j received the Doctor of Laws degree, more than a high school education; j Dr. Titsworth, who was graduated when 93 per cent of the governmental I {r°m Alfred in 1904, served his Alma

! Mater for sixteen years as Professor

Daniel Caruso Discuss Future Of

expense is given to wars, and only 1 of Modern Languages, later as Pro- per cent to science and education?" i f e s s o r o £ E n g l l s h and during the last asked Daniel Caruso in the Senior Ora-1

tion at the Commencement Exercises | T jtwo years of his stay at Alfred, ase a n JJJS

today.

"The United States r a n i s first

professional career has been an able and illustrious one. Dr.

Titsworth also holds the degree of.

among the nations of the world in I Doctor of Philosophy, which he re- finance and industry, but only ninth in

education, yet we boast of the Ameri- can education as though it were su-

y,

ceived from the University of Wiscon- sin, following study in that institution, Ohio State University, and abroad at perior to that of other nations," he | the University of Marburg, and at Ber- continued.

"The .day will come when wars will not rule; when an appeal will be mad:3 to civilization instead. Let every

lin and Dresden, Germany.

The Doctor of Letters degree will be received by Louis Wiley, Business Manager of the New York Times, who friend of universal peace seek it is regarded as one of the leading through education that will bring the I newspaper executives in the United masses and the classes into close

touch. To keep pace with this new- era of advancing standards, greater liberty in thought and action must be accorded the teachers, and society must make certain that this liberty Is securely guaranteed.

"The time has come," asserted the speaker, "when every follower of God, and friend of humankind must take up and bear the torch of learning, even against misunderstanding, super- ficiality and bias; and thereby secure the ends attendant upon a better public education in the United States."

STUDENTS SLOW IN PAYING FIVE-DOLLAR

ATHLETIC PLEDGES

"Business As A Fine Art" Chosen For Theme Of Doctor's Oration By Dr. Paul E. Titsworth;

Says "Public Be Pleased" Is Business Aim Now

Dr. Paul E. Titsworth, President of Washington College and former Dean of Alfred U-niversity, delivered the Doctor's Oration today before a large assemblage of alumni, students, and townsfolk at Academy Hall, taking as his theme "Business as a Fine Art."

Doctor's Oration

In his suggestive work on "The Ac- quisitive Society," R. H. Tawney as- serts the first article in the creed of the present industrial order to be that property rights are natural and absolute. Consequently and logically, this author continues, every property own- er holds it self-evident that he may do as he will with his own and none thinks for an instant that this right is connected with any services rendered or due to society.

For a few minutes I want to ex- amine with you the present truth of Mr. Tawney's statement that property, particulary industrial property, now believes its rights absolute and de- void of any obligations other than to the bank account of its possessor.

The rapid upspringing of manufac- turing plants in England between 1780 and 1840 under the quadruple impetus of steam, cheap iron, improving ma- chinery, and increasing demand for goods made the factory owners sud-

denly and unexpectedly rich, corres- pondingly arrogant, and ruthlessly powerful. They held tenaciously to the creed of the propertied class that they had a right to do as they would with their own. And they did. Their chief desire was to make money.

While they were waxing affluent, their workers sank into the verge of starva- tion. Widespread pauperization re- I suited, with diseaseful and swarming slums, gross ignorance, brutal oppres- sion, and rank misery of a helpless working population, denied their right- ful share in the new wealth which they were helping to produce. A large share of the social evils of the time are traceable to the working out of the philosophy held by the new and bumptious capitalistic class that the gold pouring into their coffers was altogether their property to do with

! as they pleased. And they pleased to fatten themselves on it. They

1 recognized no services, in return for their wealth, which they owed their

| country or their fellow man.

I am trying to speak here as an

! impartial reader of 19th century his- jtory, not as a humanitarian; to picture.

j on the one hand, the terrible real

| greed of some early big business, its Continued on page three

According to a report of the Treasurer's Office, but 2121 students have made payments of the five-dollar athletic assessment.

This indicates that but half of Alfred's

Pi Gamma Mu Chapter Established On Campus

Pi Gamma Mu as a national social science honorary society on the Alfred campus K now an established fact. At a meeting attended by those who received bids to mem- bership, a chapter constitution was adopted and officers elected. It is expected that the charter for the organization will soon arrive.

The fundamental purpose of Pi Gamma Mu is to encourage and reward the under- graduate stud3r of social science, and u awaken interest on the part of young j educated men and women in the scienfii, attitude toward social problems. At pre sent, the organization has thirty actively functioning chapters, in addition to whic.

over one thousand members at large represent the social science faculties of more I than five hundred American colleges ami [ universities.

States. He served as a reporter and later as the business manager of the Rochester Post-Express during the early part of his career, and after going to New York City climbed the ladder of success to his present position on the executive staff of the New York Times.

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PRESIDENT DAVIS URGES MORE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO

LOYALTY PLEDGE SERIES

An aggregate of 157 Loyalty Pledges to- taling $7,850 is now recorded on the books of the Ujalvorsitly .'Treasurer. Fifty-six of them have come from the Class of '27, sixteen from the Class of '2S, forty-nine from the Class of '29, and thirty-six' from the Vlass of '30.

While this showing is looked upon as a good start. President Davis earnestly ursres Alfred students to appreciate the Import- ance of the projects at hand and lend a helping hand and hearty co-operation.

"This,'' he says, "can best bedone by getting all pledges to class presidents, or directly to the Treasurer's Office, before the beginning of summer vacation."

This indicates that but half of Alfreds

students have met duo. self-imposed obll- The nominal qualification for member-

;ation. The Athletic Association asks that ship in the society is at least twenty hours f th i l i ith d f 85 students complete payments at the Treas-

urer's Office before the close of the semester in order to establish Alfred athletics upon a flrm basis.

Current campus discussion from some quarters has expressed the belief that the assessment, not having been approved by the University Trustees, is not duly author- ized. This impression, it is stated by those in authority, is manifestly an error. Had the assessment been issued in the name of the college, this proceedure would have been necessary. As it is, the bills are issued under the name of the Students' Association, and are collectable by that body as in the case of any other student-voted assessment issued in the name of the students themselves.

'. Summer Session Begins Day After July Fourth

of the social sciences with a grade of 85 per cent. The term social science is used in the widest sense to include all studies which contribute directly to the .knowledge of society and to the solution of social problems. I t thus includes sociology, an- thropology, economics, commerce, business administration, law, political science, history, ethics, religion, education, psychology.

and biology.

The charter members of Pi Gamma Mu are : Donald L.. ISurdick. II. T. Bawden.

M. Ellis Drake, Sec.-Treas., Dean A. E.

Main, Dean J. N. Norwood, Paul Rusby—

faculty members; Maybelle and Hurley War- ren—graduate students; Harold E. Als- worth, Richard S. Claire, Warren C. Cole- man, Raymond E. Francis, Helen Hammond, i Helen Moogan, Bernice Schultz, Jean C.

Trowbridge, Edwin Turner—seniors ; Leon ard P. Adams, president, Thekla A. Gross- man, Ruth V. Limn, Anna Minoff, vice- president. Donald F. Pruden, and Mabel E. Wagner, juniors.

According to usual custom, the fourteenth i session of summer school will open im- ! mediately after Independence Day. With the yearly increasing enrollment. Professor Titsworth. Director, expects a total of 150 students this year. With this fact in mind, he urges for prompt application during the next three weeks.

Subject matter courses in the following are scheduled : biology, English (literature and composition), Greek literature in Eng- lish translation, history. Latin, mathematics, modern languages (French, German, and Spanish), physics, pottery, and crafts.

Courses in mothods of teaching in high schools, in grammar grades, and in rural schools as well as problems of the secondary school for principals are also offered.

The summer session offers opportunity for those not quite prepared for college to make no their conditions before entering the freshman class next September.

GYM BUILDING PROGRAM HELD UP BY NECESSARY

CHANGES !N DESIGNING

"Necessary changes in construction plans i for the Davis Gymnasium have made it im possible for the trustees to let the con- I tract," said President Davis when inter- | viewed at a late date in regard to the lay- ; ing of the cornerstone of the New Gym.

"These changes will make the building more useful and efficient, and are deemed necessary. Plans for remodeling the old Gym will bo carried out this summer."

It is understood that the contract for Oavis Gymnasium will be awarded under the system of competitive bidding and that as soon as alterations for the final plans are completed this bidding will begin.

"On To The Olympics" To Be Cross Country Squad's Aim

"On to the Olympics!" is the war- cry of the cross-country team in search of new worlds to conquer.

After a long talk from "Hoc'' Ferguson, the father of the sport in Alfred, the squad has made as its aim and goal the games to be held at Antwerp. Belgium, in the summer of 102S.

Alfred is now conceded to have one of the best cross country teams in the country. Last year it established a world's record for a five-man team, when it raced to champion- ship over the seven and one-half mile Van Cortlandt Park course in the Middle Atlantics last fall. The aver- age for the first five men was 1 min.

SO sec. faster than the time of the Finnish-American team which held the record.

Ex-Captain MeGraw, who is being graduated today, is the only loss to the team. Captain-Elect Boulton.

Getz, Brown and Ladd from the point winners last year, besides Coe, Voorhies and Reynolds, letter men.

and Zschiegner from the freshman squad, will form the major part of the team for next year. A slid' schedule is being arranged which includes the National Senior and Jun- ior A. A. U. races. Pre-season train ing will start on Labor Day, but each runner will be expected to obey training rules during the summer.

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Football prospects are pretty dark now that the Central Board of Officials have rated A. U. in Class J—the low- i est group.

HUMOR

Curtain!

"Curtain!" calls a stage hand. A screen smoothly descends, interposes a wall between the observed and the observers, and an act is ended.

Commencement with its mingled solemnity and jest rolls around once more. The stage is cleared of the old and prepared again for the new.

Another act is ended.

"Well, so-long," says one Senior to another. And he smiles to wink back a tear.

"I'll see you again!" rejoins his classmate. And he swallows hard to dispel a queer lumpish feeling in his throat.

Such is the v/ay of college. We meet—rub elbows in friendship and jostle in dislike for a jarring quartet of years—then part, each going his own way. In this personal contact lies the fundamental effect of college education. It teaches us Human Nature. And in this subject we are ultimately graded—not by Alfred professors—but by our success in living with our fellows.

The threadbare axiom, "College is what you make it," is not yet worn through. Obvious as it is, we are prone to overlook it. In the impulsiveness ol our tender years, our moderate store of the world's wisdom, and our sensitive conceptions of righteousness, we look upon the genuine nobleness which is Alfred's in the light of college cynicism and fancied disillusionment.

There are Seniors being graduated who bear a grudge against their Alma Mater. Perhaps they have ample cause. For Alfred, honestly faced, has all the faults to which human flesh is heir. But if she has the sins, she has the virtues—and there are many. In college, the so-called stronghold of theory, we learn the practical ways of the world outside. And the ways of the world are not primrose paths of dalliance.

Old Alfred has given unselfishly and tenderly. The on-coming years alone can bring the realization to us. Our Alma Mater has been faithful, though we have oft mistrusted. And a s our Seniors go forth to labor in a work-a-day world, not with the childish dreams of idealistic perfection, but with the steadfast faith of Knowledge, we extend the hand of fellowship and friendliness. We clasp firmly and fearlessly, bidding them to labor for a good cause, serve with a glad heart and remember.

The Unsung Hero

The "plaudits of the crowd" are for the popular idol—the one who has done great things in a great way; the one who scores in full view of those who care to see; the one who has taken unto himself success and worldly honor.

But concealed beneath the sheen of hero worship lies a faint but steady glow—a glow of sombre dullness too rarely glancing from the bright- ness of popular homage. It is the beacon of the "Unsung Hero," which draws but passing notice. For fame treads mighty paths, nor looks aside, nor underneath the surface.

Beneath our unseeing eyes, the host of heroes passes, cloaked from our vision in the guise of everyday college life. We do not see the care- worn student, staggering doggedly toward his educational goal, beset with financial worries and troubles; we do not see the aspiring athlete, tearing out his heart at some chosen sport, encouraged neither by varsity letter nor admiring glance; we do not see the slaving activity man, bitterly victimized by campus politics; we do not see the game but piteous striving' of those either physically, socially, or mentally limited, groping everlastingly onward toward an unattainable prize; we cannot hear the prayers of those who hunger for sympathy, understanding, and success which their sacrifices fail to bring; we cannot appreciate the cost of the gritty spirit which says,

"Go on. Take the punishment!" in the face of insurmountable obstacles and apathy of those who do not care.

In the simple words of Hollis Herrick "There should be many Loyalty Medals."

THEEE RETIRING FACULTY MEMBERS

TO BE REPLACED

The changes which annually befall the roster of Alfred's faculty this year record three new names wliicli will succeed to the positions formerly occupied by Wera C.

Schuller, Professor of German, Francis C.

Hall, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, and Frank L. Goble, Instructor in Physical Education. Information released by the Col- lege Office recently states that three in- structors under consideration will undoubt- edly assume the responsibilities of their respective positions next fall.

Professor Paul G. Schroeder, who suc- ceeds Miss Wera C. Schuller as Professor of German, is a graduate of the University of Michigan, with both A. B. and M. A.

degrees. He is a Phi Beta Kappa man, with high honors in German as his major. He has been Instructor in German in the University of Michigan for five years, while working for his Ph. D., which is now completed with the exception of a thesis. He is well-recommended both as a scholar and

a teacher, is a native of the Netherlands, and speaks English, German, French and Dutch fluently. Professor Schroeder is 33 years old and married.

Miss Elva Elizabeth Starr, who will succeed Professor F. C. Hall, received her college training at the University of Illinois, taking the A. B. degree in 1923. Follow ing three years teaching, she has been doing graduate work at the University of Illinois this past year, and will receive her M. A. this June. She majored in Mathe- matics and won high honors, having been elected to Phi Beta Kappa during her Sen- ior year. Her three years teaching experience has been in Mathematics. She Is highly recommended by Dean Townsend, Head of the Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, and also by school authorities where she has taught. Miss Starr is appointed Assistant Professor of Mathematics.

Mr. Carl A. Ilansen has been appointed to the position of Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Assistant Coach.

He will have the work formerly assigned to Coach Goble, including the managership of Burdick Hall and Burdick Hall Club, but will have a full time appointment. Mr.

ITansen will he graduated this June from

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Pas de lieu Rhone que nous.

(Paddle your own canoe).

Von de Voltei mit ist?

(Wonder what time it is )

This last one is a little deep, but Bill thinks may be you can get it.

Qui n'a beau dit qui sabot dit nid a Iienu dit-e)le.

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Try this on your slide rule:

If there is 70 lbs. of air in a spare tire how much does the tire weigh ?

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Father —(in bed) "Now what are you crying for?"

Son—(Ditto) "I wanna drink."

Father—"So do I. Go to sleep.

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The two Scotchmen were broke and dry.

But they had an idea. The one stepped up to the bar, bought a drink, and talked to the barmaid for fifteen minutes. As he turned to leave she asked him if he paid for the drink and he told her that he did when he had the drink. He told of his success to the other Scot, who in turn stepped up to the bar and ordered a dou- ble drink. He talked to the barmaid for twenty minutes, started away, then tinned around and said, "Kay, Lassie, did ye give me mn change?"

Interfraternity Council AncTKlan Not Reconciled

Attempts to brealc the deadlock existing between the Men's Interfraternity Coun- cil and Klan Alpine, over the withdrawal of the latter organization from the Coun- cil as a protest against an alleged unfair decision, have made no appreciable pro- gress toward reconciliation. Negotiations, which have extended over a period of one month, still leave settlement of the matter figuratively "on the fence."

A committee, composed of ont- represent- ative from each fraternity on the campus, has made recent efforts to establish better understanding by conducting open discussion at the various houses in turn. But boiled down, the end-result of all parley so far resolves into the original demands of the two factions. The Interfraternity Coun- cil stands firm in insisting that its original decision or equivalent be enforced, and Klan Alpine is equally insistent That unless her offer to pay the regular fine merely for Council meetings missed is accepted, that a re-trial of the case be held.

Syracuse University, with the A. B. degree, and the degree of B. S. in Physical Education. During his five years in Syra- cuse he has participated in football, basket- ball, lacrosse, boxing, etc. The Recreation Commission of the City of Syracuse has employed him during the winter months to supervise the physical activities in the community centers. Hr. Hansen has also served as a counselor in a boys' camp for the past "five summers. He comes to Alfred well-recommended, and it is expected that he will greatly strengthen the Physical Training Department.

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DOCTOR'S ORATION I chosen medium of self-expression. The painter selects as his media canvas, F E A T U R E S I D E A L I S M i pigment, line, and color; the sculptor stone, line, light and shade; the musi- cian his instrument and the tones he Continued from page one.

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, self-expression of a great This flouting of the needs and wishes , personality behind, through the media of the people found classic expression |

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but have fulfilled our duties to the j Forceful Sermon Preached best of our ability.

Therefore, to the Class of 1927 we offer our heartiest congratulations and best wishes.

Ivy Oration

In all ages and times, people have- used symbols to express great truths.

Year after year as graduating class after graduating class has gone out from dear old Alfred, they have taken the Ivy as a symbol of what their beloved college has meant to them.

. . So, we, of the Class of 1927, bring our Ivy vine for planting ere we leave to matriculate in the great Univer- man, "The public be damned!"

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ployee relationships, integrity, honor, love of fellow man, deeds and dreams,' ^ one of the finest of the fine arts, one "

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Before Christian Associations By Rev. A. Arlin Heydon

Rev. A. Arlin Heydon. nasror of the First Baptist Church of Pueblo, Colorado, delivered the annual sermon before the Christian Associations on Saturday morning before a substantial number of college students and townspeople.

Using "The Savior's Soliloquy" as his t

theme, Rev. Heydon held the interest and appreciation of. his listeners throughout the sermon, which aroused much favorable comment.

"ALFRED UNIVERSITY"

WILL BE ENGRAVED ON WALTER CAMP MEMORIAL

Alfred's contribution to the National Walter Camp Memorial, for which ground is now being broken at Yale's commencement exercises, has been duly acknowledged by E, K. Hall, Chairman of the Memorial Committee. In addition to having the name

"Alfred Ujiiie_rslty" engraved in stone on the tablets flanking the memorial gateway, the college has received a certificate of participation which will be framed and dis- played either in the Carnegie Library or gymnasium.

The certificate is designed to set forth the code of true sportsmanship for which Walter Camp stood, and to encourage the spirit which dominates academic sports as a means of realizing- their richest and most far-reaching- values.

responsive to popular thinking, ready at last to say from the lips at least, if not from the heart, "The public be pleased!"

And yet something has happened and is happening to business. A new spirit moves in it. Many indications

ness manifested in a variety of human relationships.

It is this control of man over the factors of business, this power to make them obey his will, this capacity to make them reveal himself, that I want to emphasize again. It is the capacity lead me to question seriously Taw- j of the enlightened business man to ney's statement with which I started j create out of the human relations he that the present attitude of owners ; manipulates and the control of ma- of industrial properties hold their ser- \ terials he possesses something beau- vices to society in payment for those til'ul after the fashion of his lofty as- rights. I come, therefore, to a nega- pirations a.nd his high dreams which tive statement of one phase of my gen- j makes me feel that the business man.

eral contention this morning—that i no less than the professional worker gold lust is decreasingly the motive of on canvas, in stone, in clay, may be a business. As I see it business is un- \ master artist.

dergoing a certain "sea-change into Revolution of the spirit of business something rich and strange." j should forever lay the spectre of i j should forever lay the spectre of In the first place, business is now a j America's falling prey to communism, science. By science I mean a system- j extreme socialism, or philosophic an- atic knowledge of processes and a ' archy. If business can develop in the reasoned control of results. The out- j direction I have indicated I hold that worn procedure of muddling through : many of the antagonisms to the pres- business has definitely been abandon-! ent industrial order will disappear and ed. It now has at its disposal a the order itself gradually dissolve into growing body of analyzed and tested something even more just and some- experience. I thing nobler.

And in the third place, business is a i Probably in the minds of many in fine art. I this graduating class there lurks an What is a fine art? There are many instinctive belief, of which as a col- definitions. I shall cite only a few. j lege student I was conscious, that, Says one thinker: "Art is the material-, well, business is business, that it is ized expression of man's delight in ; alluring only to such as have strongly beauty. Says another: Art is wisdom ; developed the acquisitive instinct or in action; it is simply the name we knack at barter and such as are will- give to the wisest way of doing what-! ing forthwith to throw into the world's ever needs to be done. And still [ wastebasket any shreds of idealism or another: Art is excellence. I should patches of vision, native or acquired like to add a definition of my own: ', in college. There exists, I am sure, A fine art is the revelation of a man's although less than formerly, a health- highest self through his chosen med- ful sentiment among collegians that him of expression.

an educated man should not prostitute

peals to us as we see the Ivy clinging to these walls, is its beauty. Shall we let it stand then for a beautiful | life of kindliness, of gracious cour- j tesies, of loving service to our fellow- men?

Let us use for the next point of the I leaf the word growth. Today, while' we are humbly aware of our immatur- j ity we do know there has been a de- j velopment—but we must continue to grow—to study, to read, to think.

Let us call the third point of our Ivy leaf Loyalty, to fine ideals—to our college—to principles—to friends

—and loyalty to the responsibilities of life as they come to us.

For the fourth point of our leaf, let us chose Sincerity. Sincerity con- veys an idea of truth to oneself. . . Sincerity in one's relations to an in-1 dividual or a group.

And now we come to the apex of the leaf. Let us use for this point Faith. In the consuming devotion and .' faith which identifies an individual I with a cause lies the consummate per- fection of character.

Every leaf on the Ivy vine has a stem. Let us call the stem of our leaf Gratitude—gratitude for the opportun- ity of spending four years in this college, for the splendid leader at its head—gratitude to our teachers—and gratitude for the friendly association we have had in Alfred.

And now we come to the root stem.

This has four branches of different lengths—symbolic perhaps of the pro- gress made during the four years of college life—and prophetic perhaps of future success.

Members of the Class of '27—with gratitude for life and all its bless- ings—let us strive to grow in mind and heart; strive for the beauty of a harmonious, symetrical life, for loyal-

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The fine arts grow out of the fact his powers to mere money-getting, that that man never did work for bread it is beneath the dignity of a man.

alone. That kind of activity never There exists likewise the feeling that satisfied him. He always had an ideal a profession is the only satisfactory

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he wished to see realized. This over- a view of business as money-grabbing I ty to the best and noblest that is in plus of effort beyond what he needed is sadly distorted. '

to supply his merely animal needs he i The opinion of Mr. Markham is used to express the highest truth of growing more widespread.

life he knew, to achieve the highest | Increasingly college men and wo- excellence he could reach. The fine men are going into business. Increas- arts are therefore not exclusive, aris- ingly they perceive that business is a tocratic, but common, democratic, be- science which challenging all the longing to every man. Their purpose powers of their minds can offer them

MANY AEE PRESENT AT ALUMNI BANQUET

has not been to delight a few cul- enduring and noble intellectual satis- tured folk but to serve and glorify faction. Increasingly they are reali- the uses of common life. They have zing that business is a profession, grown out of the common work of the austere in its requirements of personal world, out of the effort to clothe that, and business ethics and they are catch- work with all the excellence it could i-ng the vision it opens to their awaken- bear. j ed senses for public service. And More and more. too. business con- increasingly, I believe, they are going cerns itself with turning out not only j to accept its appeal as a fine art, a durable and useful articles but pro- fine art of vicarious living and work-

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cent inspection of the stock and djs-1 ing in terms of hamonious and beauti- j ipus speakers in his capacity of toastmaster.

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., „„ courageous steadfastness of purpose, may we carry on our part in the drama of life—never losing our faith in God and the ultimate triumph of Truth and Right, so may we become worthy sons and daughters—honoring the Alma Mater whom we love.

Good flood means a great deal to you, more pleasure dur- ing the meal and better digestion afterwards.

Our special noonday luncheons are one of the good fea- tures daily enjoyed by hundreds.

When in Hornell you may expect to receive from Andy the same service and hospitality that you .received in Alfred.

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Over 200 graduate Alfredians attended the Alumni Banquet held at Ladies Hail last night. A number of interesting and enjoyable speeches figured in the evening's program of reminiscense and class re-union.

Harry M. Lang-worthy introduced the var-

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Even a tour of casual window shop-

Washington College and formerly Dean of Alfred University, gave interesting glimpses of "The Changing Character of College Life." In the response for classes that ' for

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gazer feel with the producer some of j man. Any work of head or hand done the joy of artistic craftsmanship. ] without awarness, vision of one's role Such an experience enables one to ap-j js the ctismic drama is drudgery. Any preciate something of the art impulse'] such labor done with broad aware- energizing the old guilds, their arti- ! ness, with love, arid with excellence is sans and their artists. I a fine art.

Who shall say that the art impulse is \ I crave for you the joy and the not operative in business? j achievement, the wisdom and the ex- Not only are employers recogniz- i cellence which always characterize the ing that slatternly factoi-ies induce a i work of master artists,

fatigue of mind deadening to an em- ployee's best effort, but they are com- ing to feel that an attractive plant is most in keeping with a pride of work- manship of themselves and of their men. Many of the places where men work nowadays have therefore become work n o w y

veritable temples of labor.

One hundred years ago

l T laborers were like driven cattle. Too many of them still are. And yet it is a far cry from the underpaid, ignorant, starved British factory operatives of 1827 to the workers in the Nash Tailor- ing Company of Cincinnati, with their motor cars, their beautiful homes, their part ownership in the business which employs them. One of the many lessons business has learned in this century is the beauty of the har- monious, profitable relationships possi- ble between the work-giver and the work-doer.

The understanding between capital- ist and laborer, however, splendid as it is, is a static thing. I am thinking ot a more dynamic and beautiful relation- ship. I am thinking of the modern

CLASS DAY IMPRESSIVE Continued from page one.

At this time in our Senior year, v/p realize that we are not at the end. but at the beginning of a greater work. The strength, courage, and spirit that Alfred has given us will make us equal to our tasks. And it is our sincere wish that we may be able to repay this debt to our Alma Mater through years of loyalty and service.

To the Class of 1928—as a symbol of your Seniority, we, the Class of 1927, beciueath this mantle—a heritage of which you have proven

worthy. Tradition has made it ured gift, and one which demands best from those who hold it.

it to you with the assurance that in you our hopes and ambitions will ap- proach fulfillment.

Response

In behalf of the class of 1928 I ac- cept this mantle, and in so doing sig- nify our willingness to assume the re- employer's conception of his men. j sponsibilities and accept the privileges

of a Senior Class.

The Class of 1927 has left an envi-

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Wiley, business manager of the New York Times, spoke upon, "The Newspaper As An Educator," in an instructive and clever manner.

president B. C. Davis concluded the varied program with a talk on ''The New Alfred."

The singing of the Alma Matei then completed the annual occasion, and marked the passing of one more year in the hearts of the alumni.

FINE PROGRAM GIVEN AT OPEN SESSION OF

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Various plans and possibilities for re- organizing alumni activities for future commencement weeks were discussed at the meeting of the directors of the Alumni As- soriation which was held at the President's office on Monday afternoon. Affairs of rou- tine business were also transacted, and full reports from the Treasurer and Secretary were heard.

In tho open session of the entire association this afternoon the following program was given : Invocation, music by Mr. and

Sindell '92. and a number of impromptu greetings from several alumni.

The program was concluded by musical j numbers rendered by the Vocational Band I of Buffalo, which came to Alfred as a return complement for the entertainment given by the Alfred Ladies' Glee Clu'i wliile on their trip at Buffalo.

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CORRECTION

In the issue of the Fiat Lux. May 31st.

the Vice-President of TCta Myt Alpha should have been given as Ruth V. Lunn. Also, the list of initiates of Theta Theta Chi SoroKty should have read : Oeraldine E.

Benedict, Frances Green. Dorothy Ilaliock.

Vira J. Harder. M. Alice Johnston. Ituth

•T. Marley, Harriet .1. Mills, Clarissa A.

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